Director Bryan Singer has shared a photo on Instagram of Patrick Stewart visiting the set of the film.

“[T]here is a natural mechanism by which to do it”, the director said in the CBR article.

Fox has one – possibly two, possibly three – big super hero franchises on their hands, so it may not come as a surprise that they’re considering a crossover between a couple.

It think X-Men: Apocalypse will be another huge smash – but we are going to have to wait and see how Fantastic Four is met by both critics and audiences. Given the film’s time period, we doubt it… “You have to see how the films evolve before you make the decision to completely commit to that”.

Fantastic Four is out in 6 August later this year while X-Men: Apocalypse will hit cinemas 27 May 2016.

If Fantastic Four establishes the tech necessary to travel between dimensions, I see no reason why that mechanic couldn’t be the one to link them to the X-Men universe.

“Those ideas are in play”, he said.

Before everyone gets all excited thinking Capt. Jean-Luc Picard was there to film a scene in the upcoming mutant-filled movie, I’m sorry to burst your bubble because Stewart wasn’t. Since then, Singer has directed 2 additional X-Men films as well as served as producer on a few. Along with him, “X-Men: Apocalypse” also stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Lucas Till, Alexandra Shipp, Ben Hardy, Sophie Turner, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Olivia Munn, Tye Sheridan, Lara Condor, Evan Peters, Rose Byrne, and Josh Helman, among others.

A visit to Ancient Egypt in X-Men: Apocalypse was teased in the post-credits stinger in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Not that anyone should expect X-Men: Apocalypse to shift gears away from all the things that made the previous movies so great.